So when the starting lineups were introduced Saturday before Arkansas' 72-66 loss to Alabama, maybe it's understandable that public address announcer Tony Giles mixed up the names.

Mike Anderson was introduced as "Mike Davis."

"No, I didn't hear it," Anderson said after the game.

Does the slip bother the Birmingham native?

"It doesn't surprise me," he said in a possible slap at the fact that Alabama has refused to play UAB in basketball and football over the years.

The former Jackson-Olin High School star said approximately 60 family members attended the game, plus a "couple hundred" friends.

This was not Anderson's first game in the arena. He was an Arkansas assistant from 1985-2002.

As for the game, Anderson said he was disappointed in the loss, and nothing Alabama did was surprising.

"The game went as scripted, I thought," he said. "They're a good defensive team. They made us work. We had to work for what we got. They did a good job. We didn't get to the line as much as we wanted to, and that's what you've got to do on the road. ...

"In the end, they made more plays, especially free throws, going down the stretch than we did."